cordon sanitaire

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  1. noun A barrier designed to prevent a disease or other undesirable condition from spreading.
  2. noun A chain of buffer states organized around a nation considered ideologically dangerous or potentially hostile.

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  1. French, quarantine line : cordon, line + sanitaire, sanitary.
 

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